Shipped in a sealed bag with one of the following X-Force trading cards enclosed:Shatterstar, Cable, Deadpool, X-Force, and Sunspot & Gideon.

The "50 Years of Captain America" on the back cover is typically black with white printing, but is also white with black printing on a low percentage of copies. Both colors can be found with any card version.

1st appearance of G. W. Bridge.

Alex Jay designed the logo. It appeared on issues #1 to 43.

At the time, this was the highest selling individual comic of all time at 5 million copies. It was surpassed a few months later by Jim Lee's X-Men.